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• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  was founded in 1855 it was called the Farmers' High School of ... school with a graduating class of 570 students. Most State High graduates ... students) of their peers from other Pennsylvania high schools (—which does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... my senior year in high school. They made good use of their limited

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... under my bed. I spent at least a third of my nights sleeping on it instead of my bed.  I have scoured thousands of my pictures trying to find a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘ ... a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... sorts of time consuming stuff). So, without further delay -- Puzzle ... for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  grain of salt/pepper/Adobo and a pinch of parsley. Don’t ask questions ... argument; that’s a sign of weakness that will immediately result in losing ... and judge all of the stupidity that ends up on your psets. Don’t admit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  -length weekend, if you don't have Monday off). I know that fall of senior year can be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  prospect of eight more weeks of school! Lame jokes aside, no, it’s not all ... it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... much of it! ...Anyway. I had fellow Senior House resident Milena write

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... . It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel, there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  , School of Rock and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. LSC frequently (i ... On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  same (awesome) group of friends that I had made in elementary school. If ... This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible ... decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  needed therapy since junior year of high school, when the depression ... four years. you talk to exactly two people from high school. you wonder ... 's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  understand? Don't you know that the view from the bottom of the Lobby Ten steps ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... now. I thought I would've been hardened entering the doors of Lobby

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of ... application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ever take a class that inspires one of these lists? things I could be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019